Mrs. Chaffery had come upon it in the case of her eight-dayclock when the time to wind it came round. Chaffery, it seemed, hadnot been home since Saturday night. The letter was an open oneaddressed to Lewisham, a long rambling would-be clever letter, oddlyinferior in style to Chaffery's conversation.
Of course if I came upon them in the park or in the shrubbery(where I was a trespasser) I hid or fled in pious horror, but I wasupon due occasion taken into the Presence by request. I rememberher "leddyship"... read more